Corpus Bilingüe Tomo I Vol. 1 - Archivo Abierto Institucional de la ...

LUIS GRAU
XII. That the election of senators shall be after this manner: That so much of
this state as is now parcelled into counties, be divided into four great districts:
the southern district to comprehend the city and county of New York, Suffolk,
Westchester, kings, Queens, and Richmond counties; the middle district to comprehend
the counties of Dutchess, Ulster, and Orange; the western district, the
city and county of Albany, and Tryon County; and the eastern district, the counties
of Charlotte, Cumberland, and Gloucester. That the senators shall be elected
by the freeholders of the said districts, qualified as aforesaid, in the proportions
following, to wit: in the southern district, nine; in the middle district, six; in the
western district, six; and in the eastern district, three. An D B e iT o r D A i n e D, That
a census shall be taken as soon as may be, after the expiration of seven years
from the termination of the present war, under the direction of the legislature;
and if, on such census, it shall appear that the number of senators is not justly
proportioned to the several districts, that the legislature adjust the proportion, as
near as may be, to the number of freeholders, qualified as aforesaid, in each district.
That when the number of electors within any of the said districts shall have
increased one twenty-fourth part of the whole number of electors which, by the
said census, shall be found to be in this state, an additional senator shall be chosen
by the electors of such district. That a majority of the number of senators, to be
chosen aforesaid, shall be necessary to constitute a senate sufficient to proceed
upon business; and that the senate shall, in like manner with the assembly, be
the judges of its own members. An D B e iT o r D A i n e D, That it shall be in the power
of the future legislatures of this state, for the convenience and advantage of the
good people thereof, to divide the same into such further and other counties and
districts as shall to them appear necessary.
XIII. And this convention doth further, in the name and by the authority of
the good people of this state, o r D A i n, D e T e r m i n e, A n D D e C l A r e, That no member
of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any the rights or privileges
secured to the subjects of this state by this Constitution, unless by the law of the
land, or the judgment of his peers.
XIV. That neither the assembly or the senate shall have the power to adjourn
themselves for any longer time than two days, without the mutual consent of
both.
XV. That, whenever the assembly and senate disagree, a conference shall be
held in the presence 15 of both, and be managed by committees, to be by them
respectively chosen by ballot. That the doors, both of the senate and assembly,
shall at all times be kept open to all persons, except when the welfare of the
15. En Poore y Thorpe “preference”.
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